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bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) |
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Date: |
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:19:40 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
>> The change I'd actually like to see is for NEWS to just be a symlink
>> to the appropriate NEWS.xx file, which should exist under that name
>> from the outset of development on version xx.
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> That'd cause trouble when merging from the release branch.
I think the opposite.
At present, emacs26:etc/NEWS has to get merged to master:etc/NEWS.26.
This is a PITA at every single merge.
If the file was already called NEWS.26 on both branches,
all these merge problems would go away.
(This was previously proposed and rejected in https://debbugs.gnu.org/29366#30)
> Symlinks complicate VCS operations in general.
Maybe on MS-Windows...
Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned.
The build process could construct it based on the version number.